This Thursday, Cristiano Ronaldo scored “poker”, a feat he had not achieved for three years and four months, in Al Nasr’s 4-0 victory over Al Wehda in the Saudi Arabian Championship 16th round on football.
The Portuguese scored only one goal and a penalty in the three games already played in Saudi Arabia and was already the target of criticism, but this Thursday he took revenge and scored four goals with which his Meka team beat Al Wehda, by 21, 40 , 51 and 61 minutes.
The only reason why he did not score “manita” (five goals) in the last minutes was because he was trying to pass a colleague to the finish line, when he himself, unnoticed by the Brazilian Luis Gustavo, could hit the opponent’s goal.
Ronaldo hasn’t played poker since September 10, 2019, when Portugal traveled to Lithuania to thrash the local team 5-1 in a Euro 2020 qualifier, but he hasn’t accomplished that feat at club level in almost five years . years, starting March 18, 2018, in Real Madrid’s 6-3 victory over Girona at the Santiago Bernabéu in the Spanish Liga.
With the exception of the third goal, which was the result of a penalty kick taken by the Al-Wehda defender, the rest were scored in a sequence of shots requiring the removal of Ronaldo, who appeared to finish in the ‘face’ of the guard – Abdulkddus Atiah’s net, who eventually went to ask Cristiano Ronaldo for a T-shirt.
With this victory, Al-Nasr regained the lead in the Saudi League with 37 points, the same as Al-Shabaab who is in second place, followed by Al-Ittihad with 34 and Al-Hilal who are in the FIFA final. World Cup clubs, knocking out the Brazilians from Flamengo, with 32.
The league’s top scorer is Brazilian Talisca, former Benfica player and teammate Cristiano Ronaldo, who did not play this Thursday due to suspension with 13 goals, followed by another compatriot, striker Carlos Junior, former Santa Clara player “, and the current “Al-Shabab”. player, with 11, but the Portuguese already has five goals in four games.